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The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) is funding a new initiative to address HIV among Black gay men and transgender individuals in the United States, according to an EJAF press release. The program hopes to reach 5,000 HIV-positive people by helping them learn their status, get linked to care and remain on treatment. The initiative also plans to offer HIV prevention—including assess to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—to an additional 10,000 people.

In addition, EJAF is launching the Key Populations Fund for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, focusing on prevention and treatment of HIV and hepatitis C among people most vulnerable to HIV, including sex workers, people who use drugs and gay and bisexual men in that region.

Funding is supported by EJAF and includes contributions from pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, which is donating products to cure 5,000 people of hep C.

Over the past three years, EJAF-US has invested more than $6.6 million in groups battling HIV among Black gay and bi men and transgender people—populations that are disproportionately affected by HIV. In fact, as EJAF points out, African American gay and bisexual men account for one in 500 people in the United States but nearly one in four new HIV infections.

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